Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams.

  • Bruce-Williams, Marshall.
Date:
[1905]
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    s entire proposition before ns. This intellectual order must in fact precede the practical order and accompany the appearance of the first germs of that ])ractical order. We have had the partial and one-sided statements of literature, art and science, and with tliese we must include the work of tlie more advanced groups of economic life we have mentioned. To round these together into a clear philosophic picture presenting a view of the whole has not yet however been attempted. Before it can be presented there must be a clear order indicated in our intellectual world as a whole, apart from the Immediate purposes of the practical wt)rld, though illustrated l)y the actions of that world. It is such an attempt I am making. For this purpose I have taken what we may consider the pivot ideas of the modern world, and so organised them in bureaus that they form a (‘o-operaiive systein of thought. Each of these ideas is at present held in a more or less vague state of mind, and as a rule in isolation, and incoherently connected throughout the modern world by individuals.
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